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...pendants. Manufacturers are taking no chances of missing the next turn of fashion, but they are not worried that earrings will ever go out of style. Reason: 30% of Britain's earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing ten times as many ears as he did two years ago, which...
GREAT ENGLISH SHORT NOVELS (879 pp.)-Edited by Cyril Connolly-Dial...
...Editor Cyril Connolly, who uncovers no English Candide or Death in Venice, makes an appropriate literary point in his introduction that "the great short novel is not an English form," and his selections help to prove it. None of the Great English Short Novels are great, and some of them are not even novels. But a number of them have other readable qualities that make this a pretty good book to have within reach on a night table...
...London speech last week, Dr. Cyril F. Garbett, Archbishop of York, condemned the Israeli government for the "cruel massacre" of Arabs at Kibya, in Jordan (TIME, Oct. 26). Added the archbishop, attacking the U.N.'s failure, among other things, to solve the problems of Arab refugees from Israel: "The Jewish vote in New York has had a paralyzing effect on the United Nations...
...Cyril G. Sargent, Director of the Center for Field Studies at the Graduate School of Education, conferred with the committee before the final decision, and agreed to make 500 copies of the report. Sargent also told the town's representatives that he would held two meetings on preliminary reports, and would have the staff available for conferences...